Troy Bassett

Bassett is a professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is the general editor and creator of the digital humanities project At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901 and the author of the monograph The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel (2020). Both works benefited from a Curran Fellowship (2014) that funded research into fiction serialization. A member of RSVP for over a decade, he has served as a member of the board of directors (2018–20), judge for the Colby Book Prize (2017), member of the conference committee for the Brighton conference (2019), and judge for the Field Development Grant (2020).